Notable deaths on October 8

Argentine football player and manager (1956–2025)

Cuban baseball player (1940–2024)

American football player (1940–2024)

American politician (1946–2024)

American baseball player (1928–2020)

Scottish singer-songwriter (1951–2015)

Dutch speed skater

Australian writer

American author (1927–2014)

Tibetan Buddhist tulku (1940–2013)

Canadian businessman

American politician (1948–2013)

Swiss coptologist (1927–2013)

Filipina film director and writer (1955–2012)

Indian politician

Indian singer, journalist and writer (1956–2012)

American football coach and executive (1929–2011)

British anti-smoking activist (1919–2010)

American journalist (1919–2010)

Portuguese footballer

English journalist (born 1938)

British actress (1918–2008)

Romanian cell biologist, physicist and Nobel laureate

Greek Brazilian painter and sculptor